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...OUTSIDE the Circle Theatre, a lonely kleig shot its searching blue light into the frozen New England sky. Two fans shivered under its heatless glare as they waited patiently, in hopes that celebrities would be there...
...usual, and still given to Homeric catalogues and hang-ten metaphors, Wolfe inhabits an imaginary mau-mau character as he gleefully recalls some of the finer techniques. First, aspect: "You go down there with your hair stickin' out!" Second, mien: "Don't say nothing. You just glare." Then, tactics−which include bringing along some ringer Samoans who all look ten feet tall. One of Wolfe's master mau-mauers, like some Pied Piper of litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids all armed with packages of sticky candy...
...opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to lapse into song. The orchestra vibrates with intense color and rhythm, microscopically reflective of each dramatic subtlety...
...crowd of 3,300 in the San Jose municipal auditorium, where he replayed his standard speech of the campaign. Then Nixon emerged into the darkness to confront several thousand hostile demonstrators. He clambered onto the hood of his limousine. Face hard and chin jutting out, he stood in the glare of television lights; he spread his arms and waggled his fingers in his "V" salute. "That's what they hate to see," he remarked...
...Agnew wants to know where we stand. We stand-or rather sit-right here, in the full glare, at a disadvantage as against politicians. We can't cast one vote in committee, an opposite vote on the floor; can't say one thing in the North, an opposite thing in the South. We hold no tenure, four years or otherwise, and can be voted out with a twist of the dial...